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Formant Filter?

Discussion in 'Effects [BG]' started by kevteop, Jan 13, 2009.

  1. Jan 13, 2009 #1
    kevteop

    kevteop

    Feb 12, 2008
    York, UK
    Ack... I was browsing pedals last night and saw some (looked like a 3-knob, maybe all frequency settings) formant filter pedal somewhere, and thought "ooh, that might out-do my Bassballs", but I got all drunk and sloppy and can't remember where it was (if I had a nickel for every time...).

    Anyone got any ideas?

    Searching only turns up the Line 6 FM4 and I don't want one of those.
     
  2. Jan 13, 2009 #2
    whoatherechunk

    whoatherechunk

    Apr 4, 2008
    ummmm i'm think it might be a last gast art lab pedal. damn....i forgot.
     
  3. Jan 13, 2009 #3
    kevteop

    kevteop

    Feb 12, 2008
    York, UK
    It's definitely in production. Might even be brand new.
     
  4. Jan 13, 2009 #4
    kevteop

    kevteop

    Feb 12, 2008
    York, UK
    Had a peek at their site but it's not there.

    IIRC it was orange or brown with chrome knobs, three in a row, looked sort-of the same shape and dimensions of the old EHX "small" boxes (small clone/stone, bassballs, DoctorQ, etc.)
     
  5. Jan 13, 2009 #5
    JohnDavisNYC

    JohnDavisNYC

    Jan 11, 2008
    Brooklyn, NY
    Endorsing Artist: Aguilar, D'Addario
    formant filters are rad. the bass balls is pretty great, and has a 'formant' sort of vibe... i wish that someone would make a true bypass pedal that was a 'dock' for doepfer or eurorack synth modules... it would be awesome if there was a box with the appropriate power supply built in, and you could slide modular modules into the top, and have that module in a pedal...

    pinot noir will make you dream, i suppose...

    john
     
  6. Jan 13, 2009 #6
    loonybob123

    loonybob123 Guest

    Nov 18, 2008
    San Antonio, Texas
    Nothin beats the big black bassballs original sound in my opinion

    IMG_1720.jpg
     
  7. Jan 13, 2009 #7
    kevteop

    kevteop

    Feb 12, 2008
    York, UK
    Are you emailing Mario or am I? :D It would be killer to have half a dozen of those.

    All the Bassballs sound the same to me, that's why I've got the littlest one (although I maybe should've kept the USA reissue and modded knobs for the trimpots).

    And I think a three-filter pedal may well beat the two-filter Bassballs, depending on how tweakable it is. That's why I want to track it down! :(
     
  8. Jan 13, 2009 #8
    loonybob123

    loonybob123 Guest

    Nov 18, 2008
    San Antonio, Texas
    I don't know maybe it was a Frostwave Funk a Duck
     
  9. Jan 13, 2009 #9
    kevteop

    kevteop

    Feb 12, 2008
    York, UK
    That isn't a formant filter, so it definitely wasn't that.

    Nor is the Funk-A-Duck currently in production, as far as I know.
     
  10. Jan 13, 2009 #10
    loonybob123

    loonybob123 Guest

    Nov 18, 2008
    San Antonio, Texas
  11. Jan 13, 2009 #11
    kevteop

    kevteop

    Feb 12, 2008
    York, UK
    Yes, that's a Doepfer analogue synth module, not a guitar effect pedal.

    If you do find a guitar stomp box formant filter please let me know, but the lack of a stomp switch and the inputs on the face kind-of give that away as not being one.
     
  12. Jan 13, 2009 #12
    loonybob123

    loonybob123 Guest

    Nov 18, 2008
    San Antonio, Texas
    I know Line 6's filter modeler stompbox has a formant filter setting don't know how it compares though to the bassballs.
     
  13. Jan 13, 2009 #13
    kevteop

    kevteop

    Feb 12, 2008
    York, UK
    I did mention in my opening post that I wasn't interested in the FM4.

    I do appreciate you trying to help, but I'm looking for something specific. If you do come across it please post, but I don't think it can be found via Google. Maybe it's being launched at Namm this year I can't remember, but I definitely saw it last night on a page somewhere. Might've been some distributor's website.
     
  14. Jan 13, 2009 #14
    loonybob123

    loonybob123 Guest

    Nov 18, 2008
    San Antonio, Texas
    I know I am sorry I realized that just now I am kind out of it:meh:
     
  15. Jan 14, 2009 #15
    DiscoFreq

    DiscoFreq

    Jun 13, 2005
    Belgium
  16. Jan 14, 2009 #16
    dannybuoy

    dannybuoy

    Aug 3, 2005
    Earth
    Try looking at your browser history. It's good for things like that!
     
  17. Jan 14, 2009 #17
    DiscoFreq

    DiscoFreq

    Jun 13, 2005
    Belgium
    I think I found it!

    Totally Wicked Audio Little Dipper Formant Filter:

    twa.jpg

    It's announced in the Godlyke newsletter, I can't find anything else about it...
     
  18. Jan 14, 2009 #18
    kevteop

    kevteop

    Feb 12, 2008
    York, UK
    Not what I described but very cool! Have you got/had one of those? How was it?

    That's it! See, I told you it was orange or brown... :ninja:

    Nice work dude. Shame there's no more information about it yet though.
     
  19. Jan 14, 2009 #19
    DiscoFreq

    DiscoFreq

    Jun 13, 2005
    Belgium
    I never had the EH version, but I do have 2 of these:
    http://filters.muziq.be/model/pue/talker
    They are exact copies of the EH pedal by a Polish company (late 70's, early 80's?). You can sweep through all the vowels.

    There's also a vowel function like that on the Boss AW-3 (and the Behringer copy of that one).


    :D


    I suppose we'll get more information during or after NAMM :)
     
  20. Jan 14, 2009 #20
    dubsymmetry

    dubsymmetry Guest

    Mar 13, 2008
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JohnDavisNYC
    I wish that someone would make a true bypass pedal that was a 'dock' for doepfer or eurorack synth modules... it would be awesome if there was a box with the appropriate power supply built in, and you could slide modular modules into the top, and have that module in a pedal...

    count me in! I thought about a way to incorporate doepfer modules to my live set in a practical way, this may be it! the modular variation of the halfmodular moogerfooger! awesome!